Thirteen years before Jackie Robinson broke the colour barrier in the MLB, the Chatham Coloured All-Stars became the first baseball team with Black players to compete in a championship in Ontario. The team played the Penetang Shipbuilders in the Provincial Ontario Baseball Amateur Association championship in 1934 in its second year in the league. The […]
At least nine young Cuban baseball players have defected during a tournament in Mexico, officials say, in the largest defection of Cuban athletes in years. Cuban officials called the players’ actions during the World Cup for athletes under the age of 23 “vile abandonments”, state media report. The rest of the team, which originally had […]
Two Jamaicans, including former Jamaica College stand out Nick Richards, were selected in last week’s National Basketball Association’s (NBA) Draft that was conducted virtually for the first time because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Isaiah Stewart, who attended the University of Washington, was taken with the 16th pick in the first round while Richards who […]
Toronto Blue Jays rightfelder Teoscar Hernandez has won a Silver Slugger Award for the first time in his career. The 28-year-old Hernandez, a native of the Dominican Republic, broke out as one of the game’s top sluggers in the shortened 2020 season for the Blue Jays. He hit 16 home runs with 34 RBIs in […]
Softball, a recognised sport in the world that has a good number of players among the Latino community, is one of the positive things that has come to TT as a result of the economic crises in various countries in South America and the Caribbean. Every Sunday, Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain welcomes entire […]
Should it be called Santo Domingo Baseball Park? Or just Caledonia Park? Well, a growing numbers of people in Toronto who play baseball and take part in other community activities in Caledonia Park, want to rename it ” Santo Domingo Baseball Park.” Community activist Luis Feliz Cambumbo who hails from the Dominican Republic and like […]
By Norman (Otis) Richmond The Major League Baseball playoffs are in full swing. “Thanks” to imperialism Africans in the Western Hemisphere were involved in both baseball and cricket. Africans in the U.S. and Latin America, South America and the Dutch Caribbean played baseball and those from the former British West Indies played cricket. My father […]
